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Lord of the Rings Coins
Isle of Man Treasury has a short article about John Rhys-Davis launching a series of coins featuring Lord of the Rings characters. These include a 24-carat Gold Proof Set of 5 coins showing Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, Aragorn and Frodo.
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Live in the UK? More prizes to be won!
Nivea has 5 TT DVD’s and 1 goodie bag to be won. This is for under 18’s only.
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Live in the USA? – Legolas figures to be won
ToyWiz has a contest with a prize of 3 Legolas figures. The themes are The Fellowship of the Ring, Rohan Armour and Helm’s Deep. As far as I can see there are no age restrictions for the contest.
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Live in the USA? – Sideshow Weta items to be won
NBC5 has an online competition with statues and busts of LotR characters as prizes. Main prizes – statues of Gandalf, Gimli, and an Easterling. Runner up prizes – busts of Legolas, Saruman, and Grima. Many of the IBS nextwork channels appear to be running the same contest but I am not sure if you can…
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Live in the UK? – more LotR goodies to be won
The following UK sites are all running various competitions with LotR goodies as prizes: BBC, Channel 4, Radio Nottingham, and Virgin Stores.
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Live in the UK? Here is another chance to win The One Ring
New Woman magazine has 2-9ct solid gold replicas of The One Ring worth £250 to win at their web site. You must be 18 or over to enter and live in the UK. To enter click on next on bottom right of the screen when you get there.
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Text message from Aragorn: “Arwen…Eowyn…I luv U”
Floridian has an interesting (and funny!) article on the recent LotR-themed ads featuring products such as batteries and cell phones.
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Cast your vote For the Two Towers DVD
Head over to the Disney Channel to vote for the Two Towers DVD in their Kids Awards 2003
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Two Towers DVD – selling ahead of the official release date in the UK
Some of us in the UK already have our DVD of the Two Towers as it’s being sold ahead of the official release date of 26th August. East Anglian Daily Times gives some details on how this happened. And the CoE thread TTT DVD out EARLY??? contains some more details of stores where the DVD…
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Return of the King – more shoots and visual effects *spoilers*
USA Today has two great articles: ROTK shoots and Oscar speculation, and one on visual effects in ROTK one on visual effects in ROTK.